Weekly post: What did you do?

[cereta]

Sorry, little late today. In my defense, I was lifting cat litter.

You know the drill! Whaddya do?

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[sophinisba]

I've been trying out some different exercise videos but have been a little frustrated because they're more oriented toward weight loss than I am. Also because I tried to do ab stuff but just ended up with a sore back and neck, I think because I do crunches wrong. :( It was somewhat gratifying after that to read in The New Rules of Lifting for Women that the author considers crunches to be mostly a silly exercise that puts you at risk of straining your neck, so I guess it's not just me.

Anyway, I wouldn't be able to list individual exercises but I did a 30-minute ab workout on Saturday (plus a few lat pulldowns at the gym); 20-minute lower-body workout on Monday; 40-minute core workout on Tuesday; and today I did 20 minutes each on core, lower-body and upper-body. I'm pleased that I was able to use heavier dumbbells on most of the exercises today than when I tried out the same upper/lower-body video last week.

(I also ran 18 and a half miles this week! \o/)

I just put my Netflix account on hold to save some money, and I'm hoping that next week, without the videos, I'll do some better lifting on my own - slower and with heavier weights.